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Saturday, May 6, 2017

Blue Roses

I couldn't wait to receive this Stitched Roses stamp set! For many years I did cross-stitch, and thorougly enjoyed how you could achieve such lovely shading.

It's been a dreary couple of days here, so I am feeling a bit blue, and decided to use that color for my first card using this set. To my knowledge, they haven't achieved blue roses in nature yet, so these will have to do until then.

I practiced a bit before proceeding, and I'm still having trouble getting the layers lined up - I think this set is a bit too complicated for these old eyes! If you have this set, I'd love to know any hints you might have for me. I did use my Misti, but that little flower isn't perfect........I'll keep practicing!

Beautiful card Lin, love this look. Never been able to do embroidery too messy thats me. Very temped to get this stamp set as it really is so sft and feminine.Perfect card and I hope you are feeling less blue.

I would not have known that you had a problem with this card as it looks great. I have the set and I took Jennifer McGuire hint. I stamped the flower pieces separately on a piece of vellum then sprinkled embossing clear powder and heat set. I stamped the first piece (starting with the darkest) on the cardstock and then positioned the second piece on top of the stamped image then with the misti positioned the stamp on the vellum and stamped the second image. Please look at Jennifer's post on this for a video.

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A former quilter, being creative has always made me happy, but making cards allows me to express my love of color and pattern, and then share that joy with someone else when I mail a card. I try to do something creative everyday.